Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-09

tfC cti NSc outh oN ""c aO'V by Leydon, the philosopher, who when his physicians told him that he must quit intellectual work while his bodily health was so poor, or else he would die, re- piled, "Doct0i. live or die, the wheels have got to keep going round!n Sir Walter Scott, when he was told by his physicians that he must stop intellectual toil until his phy health gat better, and he must stop fretting and worry ing. said, "Dnctor, might ust as well tell Mary, the cook, after she put the kettle of water over the fire, to keep it from boiling. l have got to boil and have got to fret, and 1 have got to worry" Sometimes the annoyance comes friends and acquaintances who are always saying or doing disagreea. things. You go and sit with some people half.hour, and you are cheered up. You scarcely know why, but you come forth with more courage to fight the battle of life. And with some people you cannot be five minutes without feeling miserable. They gather mp all the yarns spun by gossips, and pedtle them. They make your ear the funnel through which they pour adverse criticisms; and you take the most consistent Christian that ever lived and tell him all the mean things you have heard about him, and you will make him wretch ed. This principle was illustrated in Bible times in the Book of Ruth. You see, Naomi went out into far country, and she mar ried in great prosperity, and was surrounded by great wealth, and had all the luxuries of the world; but disaster came, and she return. ed to her native land, widowed and sick and poor, and the Bible tells us that her friends came out to meet her: and what did they do! Give her any cOommon sense consolation! No. They came out, and they met her, and they threw up their hands and cried out, "Is this Naomiw as much as to say, "How bad you do lOok''
 Just alter 1 entered the minis try. 1 was very pale and for four or five years, think that hun. dred times year 1 was asked if l had not the consumption; and pass ing through hotel parlor, would hear people whisper, "Ah' not long for this world;" and was re solved then 1 would never say m conversation anything depressing, and by the help of God, l kept the resolution. There are enough dis couraging things in life without our adding to them, How was it when Henry M. Stanley came back the first time from his magnificent exploit of finding pr. David Lily ingston! MT. Stanley stood in London before the scientists of England, and, under pretence Of wanting to get geographical infor- nation, some of his small critics assaulted him with mean and Tn. solent and absurd questions, until Mir. Stanley folded his arms, and stood in silence, refusing to an- swer one more question. When he first came out from that long search, which would have exhaust ed the energy of hundred Ordi' nary men, and he sat down on the western coast of Africa, sick nigh unto death; he opened the London papers and read whole columns of mean attacks. Some said he did not find Livingstone; some said others helped him to find Living stone. Ohi let us learn the Chris tian art of avoiding disagreeablc things and say only the agreeable ones. have seen a man come into prayermeeting where there were a thousand souls full of the jov of God and bright with the an- ticipation "t Heaven, and every body felt like shouting llOsana to the Son of David, and in two min. utes after that man talked, there was a wet blanket on everything. like what n little child said. A mother saw her with a spoon try ing to dip up something, from the carpet. She sad, "My darling, what are you doing there" "Oh," she replied, II am trying to dip up spoonful of sunshine" That is what we want-a spoonful of sun shine-aye, a hucketfull, hogs 4 4